A Lebanon man is accused of threatening a woman with a gun, police say.

Lebanon police received a call just after 6 p.m. Wednesday from the Boulders Apartment Complex at 20 Wolf Road reporting that a man had displayed a handgun during a dispute in an apartment.

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It was reported that a man had become angry with his girlfriend, retrieved a semi-automatic handgun from his bedroom and proceeded to chamber a round of ammunition in front of three adults and three children, ages 8, 6 and 4.

One woman was able to leave the apartment with her three children. Police requested that the remaining two adult victims exit the apartment as well.

Police surrounded the apartment in question and, over a period of 45 minutes, negotiated with the man and eventually convinced him to leave the apartment and come outside, where he was taken into custody without incident.

Scott Emerson, 29, was arrested and charged with criminal threatening with a deadly weapon, a class B felony. Emerson was held on $7,500 cash bail and transported to the Grafton County House of Correction. He was arraigned Thursday in Grafton County Superior Court.